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...mere fact HSBC turned a profit despite its troubles was a small ray of light amid an otherwise bleak outlook. New figures covering January showed industrial output falling more than anticipated in the eurozone; joblessness rose from 8.1% in December to 8.2% in January, nearly a full percentage point higher than the same month last year. (Find out 10 things to do with your money...
...research, said one professor, whose laboratory, like that of Maniatis, is housed in Fairchild. The professor—who asked that he not be named in order to preserve his relationship with the University—said that he would certainly consider opportunities to leave Harvard in light of the disruption.MCB Professor Matthew Meselson, whose laboratory has been stationed in Fairchild for nearly 30 years, said that while he still awaits further details of the move from administrators, any decision hampering his research would be “very serious” and force him to confront senior University officials...
...trickiness of light: "Kepler's supernova is 13,000 light-years away and is the most recently observed supernova in our galaxy. At the time, Kepler's supernova shone almost as brightly as Venus for several weeks. The bright light that those first observers recorded had traveled for 13,000 years to reach them. The light from Venus, however, takes only a few minutes to reach us. We look out into the night sky and record an impression of what is out there and we are inclined to think that that is how it is now, at this moment...
...things: "The largest object so far discovered in the universe is called the Sloan Great Wall...It is a filament of superclusters and clusters of galaxies about 1 billion light years away and almost 1.5 billion light-years long. It would take 250,000,000,000,000,000 copies of the Great Wall of China placed end to end to cover this distance...
...professor—who asked that he not be named in order to preserve his relationship with the University—said that he would certainly consider opportunities to leave Harvard in light of the disruption...